blog of epiphanized

Writing this so I can share the hilarious @replies I got this afternoon, but while I'm here, might as well fill you in with the other fun facts of today.

As most know, people figured out how to embed javascript commands into tweets earlier today - if not, look here.

Long story short, I figured out how to make (copied) one that would create a hyperlink over the whole of my followers' web browsers. Once one puts one's mouse over said hyperlink - ie as soon as anyone loads twitter.com - it sends the tweet: 'RT doog_' which thus retweets my last tweet.

Some say evil, some say genius.

Anywho, as a result, I can somewhat proudly say it spiralled out of control and got me 36000 RTs as shown below:

Then I figured out that it was retweeting my last tweet, so if I tweeted something else, it would retweet that - but would then stop the chain of viral retweeting (tricky to explain, just think about it). Decided I'd got far enough and it was worth stopping the RTs for a bit of promo :P

Highlight of the day had to be checking my twitter an hour after posting the link (not knowing if it had worked) and hesitantly saying out loud to the office something along the lines of 'Errr I wrote this script in a tweet and err it's got my tweet retweeted about thirty five thousand times o_O' at which point everyone turned around and was like... 'ahbwwwaaahhhhh!??!?!?!' ^_^

And to those who don't have much of a sense of humor by something that, in REALITY, i.e in the real world, caused no harm - this is usually the type of person who stays in all night on the computer, constantly checking facebook and twitter not knowing what to do with your evening and probably will amount to nothing in life - if that's you I'm describing (like #56 below), I don't care if you think I'm a dick. If you'd have done it, you would have found it just as funny!